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Use hrtimers for the decrementer

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Following S390's good example we should use hrtimers for the decrementer too!
This patch converts the timer from the old mechanism to hrtimers.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Alexander Graf
2009-11-02 12:02:31 +00:00
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent c8240bd6f0
commit 544c6761bb
3 changed files with 33 additions and 11 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -208,10 +209,25 @@ static void kvmppc_decrementer_func(unsigned long data)
}
}
/*
* low level hrtimer wake routine. Because this runs in hardirq context
* we schedule a tasklet to do the real work.
*/
enum hrtimer_restart kvmppc_decrementer_wakeup(struct hrtimer *timer)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
vcpu = container_of(timer, struct kvm_vcpu, arch.dec_timer);
tasklet_schedule(&vcpu->arch.tasklet);
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}
int kvm_arch_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
setup_timer(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer, kvmppc_decrementer_func,
(unsigned long)vcpu);
hrtimer_init(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer, CLOCK_REALTIME, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
tasklet_init(&vcpu->arch.tasklet, kvmppc_decrementer_func, (ulong)vcpu);
vcpu->arch.dec_timer.function = kvmppc_decrementer_wakeup;
return 0;
}